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AMD A9-9420e vs Intel Core i5-6500

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 2 - 39 %
AMD A9-9420e
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Core i5-6500
Multi-core performance
Rank 2 - 23 %
AMD A9-9420e
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Core i5-6500
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

AMD A9-9420e
2C / 2T · 2.70 GHz
355
Intel Core i5-6500
4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz
902
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

AMD A9-9420e
2C / 2T · 2.40 GHz
444
Intel Core i5-6500
4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz
2,956
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

AMD A9-9420e
AMD Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge)
276
Intel Core i5-6500
Intel HD Graphics 530
403

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At a glance

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AMD A9-9420eIntel Core i5-6500
FamilyAMD A (112)Intel Core i5 (336)
CPU groupAMD A9-9000 (4)Intel Core i 6000 (24)
ArchitectureStoney Ridge (Excavator)Skylake S
Technology28 nm14 nm
SegmentNotebookDesktop
SocketFP4LGA 1151
Predecessor
SuccessorIntel Core i5-7500

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

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AMD A9-9420eIntel Core i5-6500
CPU Cores / Threads2 / 24 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturenormalnormal
Cores: 2x 4x
Frequency: 1.80 GHz 3.20 GHz
Turbo (1 Core): 2.70 GHz 3.60 GHz
Turbo (All Cores): 2.40 GHz 3.40 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache2.00 MB6.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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AMD A9-9420eIntel Core i5-6500
GPU nameAMD Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge)Intel HD Graphics 530
GPU frequency0.72 GHz0.35 - 1.05 GHz
CUs / Shader3 / 19224 / 192
Raytracing
Max. displays33
Max. GPU Memory2 GB32 GB
Technology28 nm14 nm
Release dateQ2/2016Q3/2015

NPU AI performance

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AMD A9-9420eIntel Core i5-6500
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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AMD A9-9420eIntel Core i5-6500
MemoryDDR4-2133 (17.1 GB/s)
DDR4-2133 (34.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory8 GB64 GB
Memory channels12
ECCNoNo
PCIe3.0 x 83.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth7.9 GB/s15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

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AMD A9-9420eIntel Core i5-6500
TDP6 W65 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.90 °C

Technical details

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AMD A9-9420eIntel Core i5-6500
Chip designUnknownMonolithic
AES-NI
Operating systemsWindows 10, Linux
Instruction setx86-64 (64 bit)x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensionsSSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release dateQ2/2017Q3/2015
Release price250 $
DocumentsTechnical data sheet

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AMD A9-9420e
AMD A9-9420e
2C / 2T · 1.80 - 2.70 GHz
Intel Core i5-6500
Intel Core i5-6500
4C / 4T · 3.20 - 3.60 GHz

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